When I worked in Zambia - shortly after Noah's ark - we had dozens of
supracondylar humerus fractures in children in the wet season (mud gets
very slippery !) - we reduced them under axillary blocks or ketamine,
never saw an ischaemic contracture, never lost a radial pulse, fortunately
- as the nearest orthopod was some miles away.
Brenda
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